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What and where are our United States Public Lands?

We’re going to start learning a bit about Geographic Information Science (GIS). Don’t worry. You already know more about GIS than you think you do. Watch this short intro piece first.

Watch: What is GIS? (Links to an external site.)

You already engage in GIS daily through the use of your smartphone technology regularly. What you’re going to do in this lesson is to learn how to interact with information that is available in a geospatial context (a map).

→ Click here (Links to an external site.) to open the map.

→ From the “Details” pane, click “Contents”.

Q1: What are the names of the layers on this map and how are each represented on the map?

→ In the Details pane, click the “Legend” button.

Take note of the names of the public lands identified in the legend. What are public lands? REI has a great explanation here? (Links to an external site.)As you can see National Parks are public lands, but there are others too. What distinguishes the groups from one another? This page from PBS will help you understand (Links to an external site.) (also the video it comes from looks interesting if you’re interested in animal tracking. It’s pretty difficult for me to not get sidetracked right now…) (Links to an external site.)

The map and the REI page don’t align exactly because of this I will only require you to submit answers for:

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
National Park Service (NPS)

Q2. Have you visited any national parks? If so, which one(s)?

National parks Origins.

→ From the Details pane, click the button, “Contents”

→ Click the checkbox to the left of the layer name, Federal Lands-Square Miles By State. You may want to uncheck the other layers.

Q3: Where are the majority of the national parks located? (Make sure you zoom out to compare Hawaii and Alaska to the continental US)

→Click on the state to see the square miles of the federal lands within the state. Hint: Look for the darker browns. If you go to the Legend pane you will see the scale.)

Q4: Which states have the most national parks? How many parks do they contain?

→ Make sure that both the USA National Parks layer and the Federal lands – square miles by the state are checked in the Content pane.

→ Which state(s) have the highest number of brown dots within the state boundaries? Count them. Together this should answer Q4.

→In the “Content” pane, hover the mouse over the layer name, USA National Parks. Click the button, Show Table (icon looks like an Excel chart).

→ Click the Year Established column header and select “sort ascending”
– The table is now organized in chronological order of park creation.

Q5: What was the name of the first national park and when was it established?

→ Click a nearby national park, and notice that the selected park is highlighted in the table. Make sure your map is scaled to where you can see the selection (highlighted in a different color).

Q6: What national park did you select and what year was it created?

Why was the National Park Sevice created?

Q7: What is the definition of conservation?

Fact: Theodore Roosevelt is known as the conservationist president.

Q8: Using the table, what parks were created during his presidency (1901-1909)?

→ Close the table by clicking the X in the upper-right corner of the table.

What would happen if we did not have a National Park Service?

→ Open the Federal Lands – Square Miles By State layer’s legend by clicking the layer name.

Q9: Where are the largest areas of federal lands located?

Q10: Why is it important to conserve and protect the natural areas of a country?

Submit the following:

What are the names of the layers on this map and how are each represented on the map?
Have you visited any national parks? If so, which one(s)?
Where are the majority of the national parks located? (Make sure you zoom out to compare Hawaii and Alaska to the continental US)
Which states have the most national parks? How many parks do they contain?
What was the name of the first national park and when was it established?
What national park did you select and what year was it created?
What is the definition of conservation?
Using the table, what parks were created during his presidency (1901-1909)?
Where are the largest areas of federal lands located?
Why is it important to conserve and protect the natural areas of a country?

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